Mitchell KnothCloud and developer-platform engineer building production systems for AI-assisted software delivery.https://mitchellknoth.com/The Harness Should Not Live on Your Laptophttps://mitchellknoth.com/writing/the-harness-should-not-live-on-your-laptop/https://mitchellknoth.com/writing/the-harness-should-not-live-on-your-laptop/A field note on how cloud-agent sandboxes can turn personal leverage into shared, persistent, and governed engineering capability.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDone Is a Claim, Not a State: Building Evidence Gates for Coding Agentshttps://mitchellknoth.com/writing/done-is-a-claim-not-a-state/https://mitchellknoth.com/writing/done-is-a-claim-not-a-state/A field guide to separating completion claims from attempts, readbacks, durable artifacts, and authorized transitions.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Model Is Table Stakes. The Harness Is the Engineering.https://mitchellknoth.com/writing/the-model-is-table-stakes/https://mitchellknoth.com/writing/the-model-is-table-stakes/A provider-neutral field guide to what agents are told, what systems enforce, what outcomes reveal, and how failures become infrastructure.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT